BoardSnap vs OneNote: one files the photo, one ships the plan.

## OneNote's whiteboard workflow

Microsoft OneNote (often paired with Microsoft Lens for capture) lets you save a whiteboard photo to a notebook page. The Lens integration is smooth: snap the board, it straightens, it lands in your notebook. OneNote can also do OCR on the image to extract raw text. If you're in a Microsoft 365 environment, this workflow is already available to you at no extra cost.

## Where the workflow ends

OneNote stores the whiteboard. It doesn't interpret it. You get an image on a page — and maybe a block of extracted text — but the meeting's action items, decisions, and follow-ups live inside your head, not inside the note. You still have to read the board yourself and manually create tasks.

## BoardSnap's whiteboard workflow

BoardSnap reads the board and produces:

1. A written summary — what the board said, not just what it contained
2. A tri-state action item list — open, in-progress, done — with auto-generated subtasks
3. Brand-aware output — paste your URL once, summaries match your team's voice
4. Project memory — every board for a given client or team is grouped; pinned context persists across sessions

Snap. Ten seconds. Board output in your hands.

## The honest case for OneNote

If your entire workflow is Microsoft 365 — Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, OneNote — and you just need the whiteboard image accessible to your team in a shared notebook, OneNote + Lens is a zero-friction solution. It's already paid for.

## The case for switching to BoardSnap

If the board's image isn't the deliverable — the tasks are — BoardSnap is the right tool. Engineers, PMs, founders, and consultants who run working sessions on physical boards need action items, not image archives.

When to use what: Microsoft 365 shops that need image storage → OneNote + Lens. Teams that need structured action items from the board → BoardSnap.